He quickly racked up an enormous following as a good-natured, preternaturally talented wordsmith while still in his teens, releasing a series of mixtapes.īy 2010, he’d ditched the moniker for the simpler Mac Miller, and signed with Rostrum Records, the label of fellow Pittsburgh rapper Wiz Khalifa, whose career was burgeoning at the time. Miller was born in Pittsburgh in 1992, and first broke onto the hip-hop scene when he began rapping at 14 under the alias EZ Mac. “I have cared for him and tried to support his sobriety and prayed for his balance for years (and always will of course).” “I am not a babysitter or a mother and no woman should feel that they need to be,” she wrote.
According to tweets from his ex-girlfriend Ariana Grande, his substance abuse was a reason the pair broke up after two years. After a years-long period of sobriety, he began to drink again.
Miller had been open about his addiction issues in the past, and had discussed his dependence on lean - a combination of codeine and promethazine - extensively.
Miller, whose real name is Malcolm McCormick, had publicly struggled with substance abuse throughout his career, and had a well-publicized DUI arrest in May of this year.
